Puzzle.



H. McNALLY.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29. 1916.

1,230,309. Patented J um 19, I917.

Witnesses m I Inventor by W Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH MGNALLY, 0F HIGHLAND CENTER, WISCONSIN.

PUZZLE.

Application filed November 29, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH MoNALLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richland Center, in the county of Richland and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionrelates to puzzles, one of its objects being to provide a structure having separate compartments with a single means of communication therebetween, there being separate balls or other movable bodies within the device, certain ones of which are to be placed in one compartment away from the others.

A further object is to provide a device of this character in which the separation can be effected quickly and simply in a manner which is not clearly apparent to one not fully acquainted with the operation of the device.

iVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of partsand in' the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the inventionherein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the device, a portion thereof being shown in section.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a tube of transparent material the ends of which are closed preferably by disks 2 having peripheral recesses 3 forming passages for air, although it is to be understood that these passages may be located at any other desired points'in the disks. Each disk is preferably provided on its inner face with a concentric projection 4t constituting a deflector.

The disks may be held to the tube 1 in any manner desired. For example, the material forming the tube can be pressed inwardly into the periphery of each disk, as shown at 5.

Arranged within the tube at a point between the ends thereof is a partition 6 which can be secured in place in any manner desired, as by pressing portions of the material Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 134,148.

of the tube into the periphery of the partition as indicated at 7 This partition has a central opening 8 through which may be extended a tube 9 projecting toward the disks 2.

Arranged in one of the compartments are movable bodies 10 preferably spherical and arranged in twov groups or series. The bodies of one series are preferably of a color distinguishing them from the bodies of'the other series and one of the series of bodies is preferably formed of steel or like material, while the bodies of the other series or group are preferably made of cork, fiber or any other very light material. As viewed from outside of the tubular body 1, however, the two sets of bodies are exactly alike except in color. The diameters of the bodies are suchthat said bodies are free to roll about the tube 9 and upon the partition 7 when the tube is held in an upright position.

When a person having no knowledge of the operation of the device undertakes to separate the bodies of one series from those of the other so that one series of spherical bodies will be held in one compartment and the other series in the other compartment,

tion and then endeavor to jump the spheri-- cal bodies upwardly so that they will fall into the tube 9 and thus gravitate to the lower compartment. This object is defeated, however, by the concentric projection 4 depending from the uppermost disk 2, this projection serving as a deflecting means which tends to direct the spherical bodies outwardly toward the wall of the tubular casing. Even though the user might succeed in directing one of the spherical bodies into the tube 9, it is practically impossible to make any choice and divide the spherical bodies of one color from those of the other color.

The separation can be very quickly and accurately eflected simply by holding the tubular body 1 in a horizontal position and then blowing through the openings 3 in one of the disks 2. This will create a strong pressure of air in the compartment nearest said disk and the air in escaping will create eddies about the tube 9 and then flow into the tube to the opposed compartment and out through the notches in the disk of said opposed compartment. The circulation Patented June 19, 1917.

thus set up will cause the light bodies 10 to be blown through the tube 9, leaving the heavy spherical bodies in the present compartment While all of the lighter ones will promptly flow into the other compartment with the air current. By blowing into the other end of the tubular body all of those spherical members Which have been sep a rated from the heavy ones can be returned so as to mingle With the heavy spherical bodies.

The device can be very cheaply manufactured and constitutes an attractive novelty for use either as a toy or as an advertising novelty.

What is claimed is 1. A puzzle including a tubular body di vided into communicating compartments, movable bodies of different specific gravities Within the body, means for obstructing the movement of the movable bodies from one compartment to the other, and means for directing air under pressure through the compartments to convey the lighter movable bodies from one compartment and past the obstructing means to the other compartment.

2. A puzzle including a tubular body, a partition therein dividing the body into separate compartments, a tube projecting in opposite directions from the partition and into the body, movable bodies of different specific gravities Within the body, and means for directing air under pressure through the compartments and the tube to convey the lighter movable bodies from one compartment and through the tube to the other compartment.

3. A puzzle including a tubular body, a partition therein dividing the body into separate compartments, a tube projecting in opposite directions from the partition and into the body, movable bodies of different specific gravities Within the body, means for directing air under pressure through the compartments and the tube to convey the lighter movable bodies from one compart ment and through the tube to the other compartment, and deflecting means concentric with the body and spaced from but extending across the ends of the tube.

l. A puzzle including a tubular body, end closures therein having air passages, a partition within the body and dividing it into separate compartments, a tube extending through and projecting from opposed faces of the partition, and deflecting means upon the inner face of each of the end closures.

5. A puzzle including a tubular body, end closures therein having air passages, a partition Within the body and dividing it into separate compartments, and a ,tube eXtending through and projecting from opposed faces of the partition.

In. testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

' HUGH MGNALLY. lVitnesses l/VM. VVINDER, CHAS. WV. SNYDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

